Since starting the Education Support Programme four years ago I have prayed continually for someone who would be passionately excited about education and would be able to lead the ESP team. I started the programme with dream of passing it along to someone else, I wanted to create something that went beyond me and outlasted me. …
Category: Leadership
Eyes up
Recently I was working with a young girl who had some homework to do and I was struck with a sense of helplessness and hopelessness for this girl. She had some Maths to do and it wasn’t particularly hard, but she lacked the basic skills to understand the question or even begin to know where …
Love like a child
Love and trust, two things greatly desired by all in this world and two things we struggle to do purely and unconditionally. This little friend of mine reminds me most days to trust and love whole heartedly. She runs across the piece of wasteland after school, arms and legs everywhere, the school bag gets thrown …
Promises in goodbyes
On Friday we said goodbye to our absolutely amazing Tearfund girls who have been with us for 6 months. Emily, Leah, Kirsty (who left a month ago) and Lindsey have been such a blessing to everyone they have spent time with in SA during their stay here and have become close friends (you can’t really …
Brexit… a surprise for most but what have we learnt?
18 months ago something of the nature of Brexit wouldn’t have even touched on my radar, however having married a Brit in that time I definitely knew there was something up. On my visit to the UK to get married earlier this year the opinions I found were very divided, most young and working people …
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